formal cv

Name Andreas Pashalidis
Year of Birth 1978
e-mail andreas at xrtc dot com

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Paid

Aug 2009 – now Postdoc Research Associate, Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven., Leuven, Belgium. Activities include research in the area of privacy enhancing technlogies and identity management. [LOC]
Feb 2007 – Feb 2009 Research Scientist, Network Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, Germany. Activities include research in European projects in the area of security of privacy (DAIDALOS II, MAGNET BEYOND, SWIFT), business unit consulting, generation of IPR, independent research, and contributions to standards. [LOC]
Apr 2005 – Jan 2007 Research Scientist, Corporate Technology, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany. Activities include standardisation at the Internet Engineering Task Force, business unit consulting, generation of IPR, research in Europeran projects (ENABLE) [LOC].
Aug 2003 – Mar 2005 Classification of Computer & Security Abstracts for Emerald MCB UP Ltd.
Sep 2003 – Mar 2005 Occasional work for Royal Holloway, University of London, including undergraduate script marking for the Mathematics Department, examination site supervision for the Examinations and Timetabling Office, teaching for the Computer Centre, and tutorials for the IC3 "Network Security" MSc. course [LOC].
Oct 1998 – Apr 1999 Windows Network Support & Administration, Computer Hardware & Software installation, configuration & uninstallation, Technical Support at the Department of Computer Science of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens [LOC].
Nov 1997 – Mar 1998 Java Developer at the Center for Computer Graphics (ZgDV), Fraunhofer Institute in Darmstadt, Germany [LOC].

Voluntary (unpaid)

Mar 2009 – now Founder and director of XRTC UG (haftungsbeschränkt), a company that provides KYPS, a service for protecting against password theft, for free.
Jan 2007 – Mar 2009 Providing KYPS, a service for protecting against password theft, for free.
Oct 2004 – Mar 2005 Elected representative for student residents on the Royal Holloway, University of London campus. Representation to both the Student Union and the College [LOC].
Oct 2004 – Mar 2005  Web site design and maintenance for the Postgraduate Society of Royal Holloway, University of London [LOC].

Compulsory (unpaid)

Nov 1999 – May 2001 Military service in Greece, some of which as a gunner in a M48A5 tank like this one, and most of which at the Research Office of the Armour Officers' School at the Armour Education Centre near Avlonas, Greece [LOC]. [Note: Greece discriminated against conscientious objectors at the time, and still does.]

EDUCATION

2002 – 2005

Ph.D. in Information Security, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom. Dissertation title: "Interdomain User Authentication and Privacy". The abstract is available here, and the full thesis here. I was supervised by Prof. Dr. Chris J. Mitchell, and promoted by Prof. Dr. Nigel Smart and Dr. Jason Crampton.

2004 – 2005

Postgraduate Certificate in Skills of Teaching to Inspire Learning (inSTIL), Educational Development Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom [LOC].

2001 – 2002

M.Sc. in Computer and Information Networks (distinction), Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, United Kingdom. Dissertation title: "Security in Mobile Agent-based Network Management". The thesis is available here. More information about the project is available here.

1999 – 2001

Compulsory military service at the Armour Division, Greece [LOC].

1995 – 1999

B.Sc. in Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Science, Technological Educational Institution (TEI) of Athens, Greece [LOC].

1997 – 1998 University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) Darmstadt, Germany, Dept. of Computer Science [LOC].
1992 – 1995 Electronics, Technical Occupational Lyceum of Nikaia, Athens, Grade 20/20 [LOC].
1989 – 1992 14th Junior High School of Kallithea, Athens [LOC].
1988 – 1989 1st Elementary School of Kallithea, Athens [LOC].
1984 – 1988 Elementary School of Werdohl, Germany [LOC].

LANGUAGES

  • Greek – Native.

  • German – Großes Deutsches Sprachdiplom, Note: 1, 1996.

  • English – TOEFL score 287/300, July 2001.

  • Persian – Beginner.

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • Travel Grant for the IFIP World Computer Congress, 2004.

  • TTPCom Prize for the best project in the Computer and Information Networks M.Sc. course, Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, 2001/2002.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Mar 2009 A. Pashalidis, Accessing password-protected resources without the password (pdf), Proceedings of the 2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009), March 31–April 2, 2009, Los Angeles/Anaheim, USA (to be published).
Feb 2009 J-M. Bohli, A. Pashalidis, Relations Among Privacy Notions, Financial Cryptography 2009, (pre-proceedings version).
Dec 2008 A. Pashalidis, Measuring the Effectiveness and the Fairness of Relation Hiding Systems (pdf), Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2008), pages 1387–1394, December 9–12, 2008, Yilan, Taiwan.
Feb 2008 H. Tschofenig, D. Kroeselberg, A. Pashalidis, Y. Ohba, and F. Bersani, RFC 5106: The Extensible Authentication Protocol-Internet Key Exchange Protocol version 2 (EAP-IKEv2) Method, IETF.
Jun 2007 M. Franz, B. Meyer, and A. Pashalidis, Attacking Unlinkability: The Importance of Context in Nikita Borisov, Philippe Golle (editors), Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, PETS 2007, Ottawa, Canada, June 20–22, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Springer Verlag LNCS 4776, pages 1–16, Berlin, 2007.
Jun 2006 A. Pashalidis and B. Meyer, Linking Anonymous Transactions: The Consistent View Attack (pdf) in George Danezis, Philippe Golle (editors), Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 6th International Workshop, PET 2006, Cambridge, UK, June 28–30, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, Springer Verlag LNCS 4258, pages 384-392, Berlin, 2006. Please send me an email if you require a copy of the presentation.
Dec 2004 A. Pashalidis and C. J. Mitchell, Impostor: A Single Sign-on System for Use from Untrusted Devices (pdf). Presented at IEEE Globecom 2004 Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, 29 November - 3 December, 2004.
Aug 2004 A. Pashalidis and C.J. Mitchell, A Security Model for Anonymous Credential Systems, in Yves Deswarte, Frédéric Cuppens, Sushil Jajodia and Lingyu Wang (editors), Information Security Management, Education and Privacy, Proceedings of the 3rd Working Conference on Privacy and Anonymity in Networked and Distributed Systems (I-NetSec'04), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pages 183-199, ISBN 1-4020-8144-8, Toulouse, France, August 2004. The presentation is also available.
Jun 2004 A. Pashalidis and C.J. Mitchell, Using EVM Cards for Single Sign-On (pdf), in First European PKI Workshop: Research and Applications, EuroPKI 2004, Samos Island, Greece, June 25-26 2004, Proceedings, Springer Verlag (LNCS 3093), Berlin 2004. The presentation is also available.
Apr 2004 A. Pashalidis and C. J. Mitchell, Limits to Anonymity when Using Credentials (pdf), in Security Protocols, 12th International Workshop, Cambridge, U.K., April 26-28. 2004, Revised Selected Papers, Springer Verlag LNCS 3957, pages 4-12, Berlin (2006) [presented by C.J. Mitchell].
Mar 2004

A. Pashalidis and Martin Fleury, Secure Network Management Within an Open-Source Mobile Agent Framework, in Manu Malek (editor), Journal of Network and Systems Management, Special Issue: Security and Management, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp.9-31, March 2004.

Dec 2003 A. Pashalidis, A Cautionary Note on Automatic Proxy Configuration (pdf), in M.H. Hamza (editor), Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Communication, Network, and Information Security CNIS 2003, pages 153-158, December 10-12, New York, USA. The presentation is also available. 
Oct 2003 A. Pashalidis and C. J. Mitchell, Using GSM/UMTS for Single Sign-On (pdf), in: Proceedings of SympoTIC '03, Joint IST Workshop on Mobile Future and Symposium on Trends in Communications, Bratislava, Slovakia, October 2003, IEEE Press, 2003. The presentation is also available.
Oct 2003 A. Pashalidis and C. J. Mitchell, Single Sign-On Using Trusted Platforms (pdf), in: Information Security, 6th International Conference, ISC 2003, Bristol, UK, October 2003, Proceedings, Springer-Verlag (LNCS 2851), Berlin (2003). [See also: Royal Holloway, University of London, Mathematics Department Technical Report RHUL-MA-2003-3, March 2003, 15 pages]. The presentation is also available.
Jul 2003 A. Pashalidis and C. J. Mitchell, A Taxonomy of Single Sign-On Systems (pdf), in R. Safavi-Naini and J. Seberry (editors), Information Security and Privacy - 8th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2003, Wollongong, Australia, July 9-11 2003, Proceedings, Springer-Verlag (LNCS 2727), Berlin (2003), pp.249-264 [presented by C.J. Mitchell].

OTHER INTERESTS

Photography, Music, Swimming.

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